[Variations on this statement include Roger de Bussy-Rabutin’s “God is generally for the big squadrons against the small ones” (in a letter in 1677), and Voltaire’s “It is saidthat God is always on the side of the big battalions” (in a letter in 1770). See also Tacitus, under Strength.]

Pain and Suffering

“There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, anddepends on the light in which we view things.”